May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... products, sleeping bags, and blankets. Details of some innovative textiles and fibres follow. Membrane modules Membrane engineering is an innovative solution needed for deep space exploration. Filtration membranes for air and water purification and...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... of pointing error can represent a serious challenge to design engineers. With the need for complex beam steering computation across each... 50 years, Roger has design, development and engineering management experience related to many advanced civil and...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... great focus - she has three degrees in mechanical engineering and her graduate research investigated the control of thermal ... installing the Japanese laboratory. Then, as a flight engineer for Expedition 36/37 she lived aboard the Station for almost...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
...Airbus concept for a partially resuable spacecraft – the main engine has wings to fly home Cost efficiency would also be ... energy density. Intellectualisation of failure diagnostics, of engine and onboard systems operations control, and of spacecraft...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... Denmark have taken on this challenge in project CosmoCrops. Inspired by a project in 2015 called SpaceMoss, which genetically engineered moss to survive the harsh temperatures on Mars, the 2016 team decided to work with single celled organisms ...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
..., enabling high-performance missions on larger CubeSats and even microsatellites. The latest payload developed under this engineering philosophy is the Chameleon imager. By sharing a similarly designed image plane as the Gecko, but mated with more...
